Author Archives
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The best retro screensavers
Today, a screensaver may seem like a novelty, but it once served as a way to prevent “screen burn” in cathode ray tube monitors. While screensavers are no longer necessary for that purpose, the nostalgia element will forever tie the… Read More ›
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The ‘i before e, except after c’ rule is a giant lie
A University of Warwick statistician named Nathan Cunningham recently decided to put the i-before-e rule to the test. So he plugged a list of 350,000 English words into a statistical program to see if the math checked out… More at… Read More ›
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Modern pastries
Ukraine pastry chef Dinara Kasko breaks the mold with her artistic approach to baking cakes. Using 3D printing technology she not only creates never before seen cake forms, but she then delights you with pastry surprises when you cut open… Read More ›
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Disney’s Bastards
French artist Gilen Bousquet has dispensed with all likeability in his lowbrow art series Disney’s Bastards, turning childhood favorites like Dumbo, Ariel and Mowgli into dark degenerates… More at Neatorama. I kind of like these.
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One Man’s Quest For His Vinyl and His Past
When you talk to famous people for a living, it all starts to blend together after a while. You remember meeting people like Buzz Aldrin and John Cusack and Isabella Rossellini, but you have only a vague recollection of what… Read More ›
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Red sky at night, and other mysteries solved
‘Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight – red sky in the morning, sailor’s warning.’ So the saying goes – but why? This occurs when the weather predominantly comes from the west, as it does in Britain. A red sky at… Read More ›
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Twitter to livestream Wimbledon
This time around, Twitter’s Wimbledon deal is with the The All England Club, not ESPN, which is partnering with Twitter to live stream The Wimbledon Channel during the event. This coverage will include daily content, like news and interviews, behind… Read More ›
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Everything the iPhone replaced
I have written a few of these types of article over the years and suspect that the phone of today can replace hundreds of older products, maybe thousands.
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The Nokia Vision 2018 concept phone
Can I say, before the smartphone craze, Nokia was the Apple. Their phones surpassed everything we wished and hoped for. If you didn’t have a Nokia, you didn’t have a phone worth even talking about, or talking into. Now that… Read More ›
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A map that fills a 500-million year gap in Earth’s history
Based on an article by Alan Collins (University of Adelaide) and Andrew Merdith (University of Sydney). Very very interesting.
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